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31 cars for Michigan (first starts for Chilton + Davison + RHR + Marco + Jr) and if you have caught some of the practice races, I think it is safe to say this is gonna be A. Disaster. Cool! https://twitter.com/tracksideonline/status/1248379214975262721
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harperdc posted:Something about those just seems off.... I loving love that PC sims let you have huge fields of whatever the gently caress you like. I'm forever doing poo poo like just throwing 35 F1 and Indycars cars of every era onto Silverstone National.
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Cygni posted:31 cars for Michigan (first starts for Chilton + Davison + RHR + Marco + Jr) and if you have caught some of the practice races, I think it is safe to say this is gonna be A. Disaster. Cool! Which means to save anyone mathsing, we've lost Johnson and Scott Speed. EDIT : And one other but I can't figure out who. Dudley fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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Dudley posted:I loving love that PC sims let you have huge fields of whatever the gently caress you like. I'm forever doing poo poo like just throwing 35 F1 and Indycars cars of every era onto Silverstone National. You can do whatever you like and you pick Silverstone??
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Dudley posted:I loving love that PC sims let you have huge fields of whatever the gently caress you like. I'm forever doing poo poo like just throwing 35 F1 and Indycars cars of every era onto Silverstone National. They did a Sebring 12hr where some of the classes included trophy trucks, midgets, and Miatas.
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hunnert car pileup posted:SI is obv pretty That article is from 3 years ago before they got bought out FWIW (not that they were great before that)
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CactusWeasle posted:You can do whatever you like and you pick Silverstone?? Nationals a pretty good circuit to have a mass race on. You want a short circuit so lapping starts quickly.
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https://jalopnik.com/indycar-should-have-chosen-the-deltawing-1842783780
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The spiciest of lovely takes. gently caress the deltawing.
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IOwnCalculus posted:gently caress the deltawing. The spiciest of lovely takes.
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low aero is a good idea, the deltawing as a package was absolutely not.
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I’m glad that it existed and raced, but I don’t think it’s the right solution for a full field of IndyCars. The DW12 has turned into a real good chassis and the current aero is really good for racing.
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harperdc posted:I’m glad that it existed and raced, but I don’t think it’s the right solution for a full field of IndyCars. The DW12 has turned into a real good chassis and the current aero is really good for racing. Road course and short oval, yes. The current speedway package is pretty garbage for racing.
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harperdc posted:They did a Sebring 12hr where some of the classes included trophy trucks, midgets, and Miatas. They're doing circuit de la sarthe with dirt sprints. I love those two guys.
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Listening to the Dinner With Racers from 3 years ago with IMS President Doug Boles and he proclaims the Hulman-George family will never sell the track because it means so much to them. oof
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lmao Indycar iracing is dumb as gently caress, do something super dangerous with more cars than should be allowed every time from now on imo I want 40 cars at Fontana goddamnit
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Reynold posted:lmao Indycar iracing is dumb as gently caress, do something super dangerous with more cars than should be allowed every time from now on imo im pretty sure thats what 31 cars at michigan was, but they binned half the cars on the first lap
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Cygni posted:im pretty sure thats what 31 cars at michigan was, but they binned half the cars on the first lap Yes, more of that plz Dale Jr. on the podium, a Pagenaud win, I'm happy with this fake race for video game nerds.
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McLaughin’s stream was fun to watch, especially when he was sitting in P15 at Lap 40 and they were doing the math to figure out how to make it the fuel work and get to P2 by the end.
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just watching this now gg Cooganqvist
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I dunno this seems pretty fun.
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That Dale Jr. post-race interview lol "No."
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Cygni posted:im pretty sure thats what 31 cars at michigan was, but they binned half the cars on the first lap Michigan could easily run that many cars. In 1994 at CART's zenith there were sometimes up to 32 car fields, bizarrely though only on street circuits or road courses (31 at Toronto, 32 at Portland). They actually had to send Franck Freon home at Road America that year although he eventually started anyway because Ross Bentley withdrew prior to the start due to to a cracked Bellhousing (WTF?!?).
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Cygni posted:im pretty sure thats what 31 cars at michigan was, but they binned half the cars on the first lap That happened in reality too.
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They could have 30+ at the big ovals NASCAR also runs because the infrastructure for that many teams (garages and pit setups) should be there, for some other places it might be tighter. Or we have Gilligan’s Island situations again.
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Aren't the pit boxes for Indycars considerably longer than NASCAR's?
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IOwnCalculus posted:Aren't the pit boxes for Indycars considerably longer than NASCAR's? Yes, they need the clearance due to the smaller turning radius. NASCAR pit boxes are ideally 25 feet, Indycar pitboxes are 40+ feet with Indy having 47ft boxes.
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WindyMan posted:Yes, they need the clearance due to the smaller turning radius. NASCAR pit boxes are ideally 25 feet, Indycar pitboxes are 40+ feet with Indy having 47ft boxes. If they need more space wouldn’t that mean it’s a larger turning radius? I also didn’t know the differences were so stark. Huh! Almost double. Wow.
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Need room for the sick burnouts that IndyCars do to get out of the box
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Frond posted:Michigan could easily run that many cars. In 1994 at CART's zenith there were sometimes up to 32 car fields, bizarrely though only on street circuits or road courses (31 at Toronto, 32 at Portland). They actually had to send Franck Freon home at Road America that year although he eventually started anyway because Ross Bentley withdrew prior to the start due to to a cracked Bellhousing (WTF?!?). We've all had nights like that.
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In May they need to do a normal 33 car 500 on iracing but then either (or both) an Indy 1,000 with driver changes or like a 50 car field. Or a 500 with classes of open wheelers I crave dumb content is what I'm saying
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Dudley posted:We've all had nights like that. I just find it odd Coyne didn't have another transmission available.
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Then again, while CART era Coyne sometimes ran up to 3 cars only the "lead" car would have spares or new parts. '97 was a good example. Jourdain's car got all the upgraded parts while Vitolo was using the initial Lola spec, which was borderline undriveable. As an aside, most think Hiro was the worst of the later CART era - but on road courses at least Vitolo had nothing on him. He was shockingly slow (he was parked in Toronto 1997 for "handling"). Coyne also employed this guy (Nearburg) for 3 races. I think one of the conditions of hiring him was that he paid for a Reynard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qP8qfSZAmw
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I still want to know what was up with Vitolo's "sponsorship" with SmithKleinBeecham, a massive loving company
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In retrospect the sponsorship might have been a result of Dale himself. Both Gualter Salles and Takuya Kurosawa had VIA sponsorship: one of our (Canada’s) state owned rail corporations.
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Vitolo also must have known somebody because he inexplicably kept getting rides.
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Minto Took posted:So, Larson to a third Coyne car? if he wants to pay for it out of his own pocket, Dale Coyne dont care.
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Spaced God posted:In May they need to do a normal 33 car 500 on iracing but then either (or both) an Indy 1,000 with driver changes or like a 50 car field.
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